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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 24
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Murderers, adulterers, those who oppress the poor, and wicked people in general often go unpunished.
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Why,</span> seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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<i>Some</i> remove the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 19: 14; Prov. 22: 28; Hosea 5: 10.">landmarks</a>; they violently take away flocks, and feed <i>thereof.</i>
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They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
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They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
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Behold, <i>as</i> wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness <i>yieldeth</i> food for them <i>and</i> for <i>their</i> children.
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They reap <i>every one</i> his <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB fodder.">corn</a> in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.
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They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that <i>they have</i> no covering in the cold.
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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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They cause <i>him</i> to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf <i>from</i> the hungry;
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<i>Which</i> make oil within their walls, <i>and</i> tread <i>their</i> winepresses, and suffer thirst.
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Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR does not give heed to their prayer.">layeth</a> not folly <i>to them.</i>
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They are of those that <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 2: 23 (19-24); Mosiah 15: 26; D&C 10: 21 (20-22).">rebel</a> against the <sup>b</sup><a href="job/24/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 13: 29.">light</a>; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 7: 9 (9-10).">twilight</a>, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth <i>his</i> face.
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In the dark they dig through houses, <i>which </i>they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 10: 21.">light</a>.
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For the morning <i>is</i> to them even as the shadow of death: if <i>one</i> know <i>them, they are in</i> the terrors of the shadow of death.
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He <i>is</i> swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Drought.">Drought</a> and heat consume the snow waters: <i>so doth</i> the grave <i>those which</i> have sinned.
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The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
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He evil entreateth the barren <i>that</i> beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
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He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no <i>man</i> is sure of life.
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<i>Though</i> it be given him <i>to be</i> in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes <i>are</i> upon their ways.
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They are exalted for a <sup>a</sup><a href="job/24/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 37: 10 (10-11).">little</a> while, but are gone and brought <sup>b</sup><a href="job/24/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 26: 10.">low</a>; they are taken out of the way as all <i>other,</i> and cut off as the <sup>c</sup><a href="job/24/24c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB heads of grain.">tops</a> of the ears of corn.
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And if <i>it be</i> not <i>so</i> now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
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